jQuery for ASP.NET Developers

Book excerpt: This Wrox Blox teaches you how to use jQuery with your ASP.NET-based websites. jQuery greatly simplifies JavaScript development and allows you to create highly interactive and responsive websites using the latest JavaScript and AJAX techniques. The author walks you through the jQuery API using a simple ASP.NET MVC application to highlight major topics, and shows how you can apply jQuery to your own applications. After learning the basics of using jQuery, you’ll discover how easy it is to use within your own ASP.NET projects. Whether you are using WebForms or the MVC framework, jQuery will greatly simplify your code. As you will quickly find out, jQuery really is the “write less, do more” framework. Table of Contents Overview 1 Getting Started 2 jQuery Basics 2 Jumping into the API 5 jQuery Core Functions 5 jQuery Selectors 14 DOM Retrieval, Manipulation, and Traversal 23 Event Handling 32 Effects 42 AJAX 48 Plug-Ins 52 Using jQuery in ASP.NET 58 Visual Studio 2010 58 Web Forms 58 MVC Framework 59 Summary 61 About Joe Brinkman 62